Yahoo intends to release the code that the company is currently developing as part of its internal cloud-serving engine. Todd Papaioannou, Yahoo's vice president of cloud architecture described Yahoo's cloud capabilities as akin to Amazon's well-known EC2 platform, but with a higher level of abstraction for ease of development. Written in Java and C++, Yahoo's cloud-serving engine is based on the LAMP and Java stack, and will support PHP and JavaScript on the front-end. Other languages could conceivably be deployed on top of it.

Yahoo says it intends to put its cloud-serving engine into internal use by March, and the software should be released next year as open source. He did however note that no formal date has been set at the moment. Papaioannou told Network World: "We believe there is a huge benefit to open-sourcing our infrastructure, allowing other people to augment it and make it better. That's what's made the Internet successful to date."

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